Update 2 (March 30, 11:52pm, Pacific Time): After arriving encased in glass at the Beijing airport (see below), the Olympic flame was transported to Tian'anmen Square for an official torch lighting ceremony, attended by a conspicuously modest crowd of hand-picked

With appetite growing on the Chinese Internet for more information about the history of China's dealings with Tibet, one elderly blogger has stepped up to feed it. The blogger, 72-year-old Jiang Dasan ( ), is a retired pilot who was

In a myth-busting opinion piece for the San Francisco Chronicle, University of Southern California international relations scholar Geoffrey Garrett slams Hilary Clinton's recent echoing of middle-American protectionist sentiment towards China and offers three "trade secrets" as the basis for a

Planning to write his next column on China and the Tibet protests, New York Times pundit Nicholas Kristof has issued an open call for commentary on his blog. The invitation is as follows: In any case, my sense is that

From Reuters:The yuan dipped against the dollar on Monday, guided by the Chinese central bank ahead of a visit to China by U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, but its appreciation in the first quarter is set to be the biggest

A quick but compelling look inside China's nascent green building movement, from Caijing's English edition: This past winter was particularly cozy for residents at No. 12 West Huixin Street in Beijing. "In the past, it was so cold in winter

From the front lines of the product safety wars, bad news for the growing coterie of Chinese pizza fans. From AFP: China has banned the imports of Italian mozzarella cheese, the nation's product quality watchdog said, after traces of the

Japanese efforts to remove chemical weapons left behind in China after World War II, required under international treaty, are now on hold after the company responsible for the removal was closed due to a corruption scandal. As TIME reports, the